windows 7 - Loop video without stuttering

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2014-07
  • Andreas Haferburg

    When VLC 2.1.3 loops a short video of about 600 ms (animation, uncompressed, 100 MB), there's a big delay of ~200 ms when it loops from the end back to the start. Windows Media Player can't even play it properly at 60 FPS. I remember that there used to be mplayer2.exe in Windows 2000 which was able to do that, but I can't find it anymore.

    Which program can loop videos flawlessly?

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  • Jason C

    VLC seems to reinitialize the codecs or something every time through. I am unaware of any way to stop this.

    However, I can get videos to loop smoothly with mplayer. Windows binaries are on that page (Windows download page, choose appropriate platform, just below news section).

    To install it just extract it somewhere. Then on the command line (or via a shortcut or a file association), run:

    mplayer videofile.xyz -loop 0

    And it should loop smoothly forever. To start in full screen mode:

    mplayer -fs videofile.xyz -loop 0

    Make sure you put the -loop 0 last. If you put it before the file name then mplayer will restart on every loop. If you put it after then it runs smoothly. I don't know why but apparently it's a very old quirk (or maybe it's by design, I don't know, -loop is actually rather flexible) (also note the OSD issue mentioned there has long since been resolved).


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  • Greg B

    I recently upgraded from 32bit Windows 7 to 64bit so I could use all the RAM in my laptop.

    Everything works great except 3D, which stutters like crazy. This worked fine when I was on 32bit Windows 7.

    I have the latest driver for the Quadro FX 770M that is in my Dell M4400. I got this via the NVidia utility on their site. I also tried the Dell driver from support.dell.com.

    Both give the same results.

    I have all the drivers installed for the motherboard, hard disk etc as given on the dell support page.

    Does anyone else share this issue with 3D on 64bit Windows 7.


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  • jburke

    The latest nVidia drivers (190/191) cause some stuttering with Windows 7 in certain games. Roll back your drivers to 186 and it should be fine. I'm waiting for a fix myself.

  • CGA

    You could try uninstalling the drivers and then run Driver sweeper, then install the Nvidia drivers again.

  • Joe Internet

    Try it with Aero disabled. I know that I get choppy streaming Netflix video if I don't disable Aero.